[Xen-users] Guest boot problem on centOS 5.4

[Akshay Joglekar <akshayj_18@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I am using a centOS 5.4 system with Xen installed.

When I try to create a new VM instance in dom0 using virt-install, the process hangs up at:


Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 390k



Following is the complete output:

Linux version 2.6.18-164.el5xen (mockbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)) #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 04:47:32 EDT 2009
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000010800000 (usable)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
264MB LOWMEM available.
NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
ACPI in unprivileged domain disabled
Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 67584
Kernel command line:  method=http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/5.4/os/i386/
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c0750000 soft=c0730000
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
Xen reported: 1995.001 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Software IO TLB disabled
vmalloc area: d1000000-f4ffe000, maxmem 2d7fe000
Memory: 246016k/270336k available (2162k kernel code, 15832k reserved, 887k data, 176k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4990.95 BogoMIPS (lpj=9981902)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux:  Initializing.
selinux_register_security:  Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 1024K
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 13k freed
Brought up 1 CPUs
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 8464k freed
Grant table initialized
NET: Registered protocol family 16
Brought up 1 CPUs
PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
xen_mem: Initialising balloon driver.
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: System does not support PCI
PCI: System does not support PCI
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel:  domain hash size = 128
NetLabel:  protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel:  unlabeled traffic allowed by default
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 8192)
TCP reno registered
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
type=2000 audit(1267422085.998:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
alg: No test for crc32c (crc32c-generic)
ksign: Installing public key data
Loading keyring
- Added public key 581431131FF6A527
- User ID: CentOS (Kernel Module GPG key)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
rtc: IRQ 8 is not free.
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
brd: module loaded
Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0
Event-channel device installed.
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37
input: Xen Virtual Keyboard/Mouse as /class/input/input0
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
i8042.c: No controller found.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
TCP bic registered
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51712
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0
Initalizing network drop monitor service
Freeing unused kernel memory: 176k freed
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 390k

Can someone please help me out? Thanks in advance.

Akshay

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